Right And Left handed Guitar Makes Any Sense?

[MusicPebbles]

Hello I've decided to start this thread and discuss about this. Do U guys think that Right and Left handed guitars make any sense i mean. In my opinion JUST mine, i think that to me the right and left handed guitars are just 2 different shaped guitars. See, With those fast songs ur picking hand must be fast and accurate, while in some songs ur tapping and pull offs must be fast and accurate too. So err... i really think that guitarists makes use of their both hands and this guitar right/left should not really be there.
It should be just 2 different ways u can play it and u decide which side u wanna take onto ur guitar journey.
Any idea of who started to say that a guitar with right hand picking is right handed? i am really keen to know.

So do u guys agree with me? if not pls state reason coz i wanna know how u guys think =)

GUITARISTS COULD BE AMBIDEXTROUS!!
:twisted:

 

[dudelove]

MAB is ambidextrous for sure.

other than that i dont really understand ur point.

 

[MusicPebbles]

ok basically i mean both hands are used for very demanding tasks on its own. Unless u play strumming only. I'm refering to fast lead stuff with tons of hammer-on and pull-offs and fast picking both hands nid to be accurate and fast.

 

[nabeelmashren]

ahh. but the picking hand's fingers dont really get much use unless your tapping i think. So your fingers wouldnt be much agile as the other.

 

[MusicPebbles]

Lol nabeelmashren then doesn't that means that on a "Righty" guitar the left hand is more dominant? haha nonono i'm not talking about the fingers of the picking hand i'm now talking about the individual roles of each hand. I think each hand have its own stuff to do so err chosing a righty or lefty guitar only decides which hand to do what

 

[senn_liu]

threadstarter is just saying that guitarists should think of being ambidextrous, like pianists, and not stick too closely to being right or left handed.

check out dave knudson. previously from botch, now in minus the bear. his tapping is cool, and his use of effects is amazing.

 

[Godspeed64]

I must say, I am against the idea of "left-handed" guitars.

Put it this way, left handed guitarists tend to more often than not complain about the less choices available to them, and obviously have a harder time on the Buy/Sell market.

But come on, is there a REASON to pick up a left-handed guitar when you can use a right-handed one? I don't think there should be a distinction lah.. Both hands are used a lot, one in picking technique and another in fretting your notes. Be it left handed or right handed, that is how you begin training yourself in the first place. As a floorball/inline hockey player, I myself have been using a left handed stick for the past 6 years even as a right hander and I find using right handed sticks to be abnormal. Same goes for guitar, why not start using a right handed guitar anyways?

With an exception, only Jimi Hendrix looked cool with his lefty guitar.

 

[evident]

i'm a drummer, but i'll give my opinion anyway.

we drummers also use both our right and left hands while playing. but most of us lead with our right hands. so most "right-handed" drummers do have trouble playing with a leading left hand (in left-handed set ups or open-handed set ups). get where i'm going here? so there is a difference.

brushing your teeth is a simple task, but try brushing with the hand that you don't usually use to brush. it'll be awkward, trust me...even if you're ambidextrous..

 

[MusicPebbles]

A simple thing is HUMAN Beings are Adaptive Creatures. Means that we can adapt to anything except it takes time

 

[MusicPebbles]

So now it has been standardised that the picking hand should be the dominant hand and but who set this?

 

[bedokkids]

whichever your choice is

just "cut the crap" and hit the guitar as often as you can.

remember:

Skills comes first,( that's inculsive of training your ear and sight reading, music theory)

then Gear comes second.

 

[ultracrap]

im a left hander who picked up a right handed guitar

 

[Spikey`]

same.
picked up drums the right hand way too tho im a lefty.

ps: hi mark

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

I think left handed guitars are some sort of marketing tool.

If it really was a problem for leftys, then reversed pianos would be more common... hell, there're lefty's mouse but no lefty keyboards? wait, but then again, on our normal keyboards, right handers are using their left hands more than their right... but then... and then... uh... but but...

A right hander can use chopsticks with his left and wouldn't feel weird if he started out like that. just like forks on the right / spoons on the left and vice versa, both parts of our brain actually works!!

 

[Elias]

Just curious whether any of you are lefties who plays guitar in the left-handed manner? Cos being a lefty myself and having played both righty and lefty guitars, I must say that there is a justification on having both left and right-handed models. Right-handed guitars have body shape and configurations that suits right-handed people...the cutaways, knobs and tremelo for example. While I know that there are lefties that play right-handed guitars just as successfully, it ain't comfortable to have the knobs jabbing at your arm and also having to stretch further to reach the highest frets due to the cutaway...all these affect the way one plays. Same goes for the nut/bridge/pickups. So, left-handed guitars are not simply gimmick as its all in the design and functions Having said that, it's always a problem of the minority lah...it's an age-old thing...notice how books/writings are all catered to the right-handed majority?

 

[lester_music]

ok basically i mean both hands are used for very demanding tasks on its own. Unless u play strumming only. I'm refering to fast lead stuff with tons of hammer-on and pull-offs and fast picking both hands nid to be accurate and fast.

Unless you are talking about very basic strumming or else,

When it comes to strumming or whatever form of guitar playing, the left hand can be as active as the right , in fact most of the time busier...the right hand is doing a simpler job actually...

Left hands can be doing muting, controlling strings, doing many extentions to a chord within a bar, creating percussive sound, hammer-ons, pull offs, trills...etc.. actually it is so much busier than my right hand...

for example, with my left hand alone, I still can play guitar , but with right only, I can't...

So it does not really matter if you are left-handed, you may be better doing a right handed guitar...